-And in a free society, one should be allowed their own philosophy without condemnation, judgement, or penalty as long as it doesn't harm others.

Oh, we can't exclude anybody from condemnation or judgement. Free Speech.

-It's hard to draw any conclusions other than Vance is really, really, really, hated and Trump is really, really hated.

It found that Vice President JD Vance was the most popular figure among Republicans with a net favorability rating of +65 overall and +54 among Republican voters under the age of 30. Over 53 percent of Republicans would support Vance if he stood in the 2028 GOP primary, the poll found.

-How come you can't understand the written language?

most of us speak English.

Snoofy, lamplighter, and Boaz speak their own language.

-I'll be doing an install for Department of Defense later this month.

plumbing?
flooring?
light fixtures?

or those new cool soap dispensers?

-Any of that sound worrisome?

maybe it should be but I'm not as worried about it as COVID since we've had a pretty effective vaccine for the past 55 years or so......

Again, you're really worried our economy will be impacted similarly to COVID?

-Or should we wait till it becomes a pandemic and we're forced to shut down our economy?

what? a measles pandemic that shuts down our economy?

-Congratulations, you're part of the problem!

The juco where you got your welding certificate doesn't have the same research expectations as we have from Harvard....no question about that.

But I'm not part of the problem, or really.....your problem.

You believe what you want.

maybe you should go read about yourself on the medicaid thread corky posted.

You seem like the kind of person who's on medicaid, but doesn't realize it.

There are all kinds of stupid people out there who are unaware of their own circumstances. People tell themselves anything to get through the day. And much of it lies.

Which doesn't really matter to anyone.

It's not that they care how stupid these people are....it's how they vote. That's what has their asses chapped.

-I love how readily the mouth breathing dumbf*+^s offer up their active membership in that club.

I believe there are a lot of moderates and liberals who would agree it's not an unreasonable argument to question their tax dollars going to a university miles out of their reach with a $53B endowment.

I don't think that means they support this threat by Trump. I would set that aside completely.

But questioning why are giving $9 Billion to Harvard isn't all that crazy.

This article is old but it gives some insight into Harvard's admissions....

It's not that Harvard isn't serious about education.

It's that Harvard is very particular about who they want to receive their education and how their school is perceived.

Legacy and large donor admissions are a big big deal to them.

Harvard tries to be ranked very high on various lists.

law school
business school
engineering
medicine
etc...

They want to be ranked high but they also need to balance it with lowering their standards for legacy and donor admissions.

FWIW, their law school recently dropped out of the coveted T3 of law schools.

For good reason, the for-profit prison system takes a bad rap in this country.

We've crossed another milestone here.

We've managed to outsource incarceration jobs now.

This is a foreign prison outsource move.

I did some reading on this...I didn't realize the federal govt. supported unemployment as much as it does. I thought it was almost entirely funded by the respective states.

Turns out the Fed govt provides quite a bit of administrative help.

Not that I give a crap what DOGE says....which I don't.

-OK, SCOTUS has ruled that he should be returned to the US.

The highlighted portion above orders the US to "facilitate" his release from El Salvador.

El Salvador still has to volunteer to give him up. If they don't, then I don't know what "facilitate" means but since it's in "" then maybe it's defined specifically somewhere in that document issued by the court.